--- title: Explained: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank The Potteries canonical: https://www.petrolinadieselcar.co.uk/adblue-in-diesel/the-potteries-staffordshire/ location: The Potteries county: Staffordshire latitude: 53.015680 longitude: -2.172870 service: AdBlue in a Diesel Tank updated: 2026-10-11 --- # AdBlue in a Diesel Tank in The Potteries: How It Happens and How to Prevent It AdBlue already in your diesel tank? Then set this page aside a moment, keep your ignition and motor off, and phone 0333 366 0103. Around The Potteries, catching it before the motor turns normally leaves draining and a thorough flush on the spot. If you are reading before it has happened, the rest of this page is about why it takes place and how to make sure it doesn't. ## AdBlue in a diesel motor, and its separate tank Many newer diesels in Berry Hill, as well as The Potteries, run on two liquids; your engine gets just your diesel. AdBlue goes to your exhaust, where it is sprayed into the gas to fresh it, and it lives in a tank of its own. Every tank comes with one filler of its own. Plenty of motors have a single flap for the two, whereas others move the AdBlue filler to your boot or under the bonnet. Filling the diesel side at the petrol pump happens constantly. Seldom filled, AdBlue normally comes out of a bottle, poured by someone who must stop and think which cap to use. It's in the gap that the slip happens. ## The Potteries: how AdBlue in the diesel tank takes place Three things tend to line up, and carelessness is rarely one of them. On a driveway off Kilmore Quay before work, or in the car park at Village Tavern heading home: that is where the rushed top-up happens. What is the reason for the rush? As AdBlue runs low your car tells you, and if it is gone, limp mode follows. Then your car is new. A hire car, a new vehicle or a company car puts the fillers where your last one didn't, and the hand gets to for the cap it would have used on the old one. A spouted bottle meets no obstacle at a diesel filler no more than at an AdBlue one. And so the tip, after started, keeps on. The same few seconds decide it, in the middle of The Potteries or out in Joiners Square. ## How to tell the AdBlue filler from the diesel one A couple of seconds is all these take — so check them before you pour anything, on a driveway in Etruria or a forecourt in The Potteries. - Read the cap rather than going by where it sits: AdBlue caps are commonly blue or marked "AdBlue", and diesel caps normally aren't. - The size. On plenty of vehicles the AdBlue filler neck is the smaller of the two. - A label inside your fuel flap frequently says which fuel goes where, on many cars. Look for it. - The handbook says where it lives when the filler isn't next to the diesel cap: your boot, or under the bonnet. - The previous driver knows. Ask when you collect a hire car or company car — at Stoke-On-Trent's car park, perhaps — not when the light appears. ## How to top up without AdBlue in the diesel tank For the day the warning appears — anywhere it is in Staffordshire — a routine to follow. - Not in a rush on the side of The Parkway, not on a slope, not with the engine running: park and switch off first. - Find the AdBlue filler and read the cap. Say "AdBlue" out loud as you unscrew it. It sounds silly and it does the trick. - Leave the diesel cap on. If both sit under one flap, check the diesel cap is still closed before you lift the bottle. - Finish when your tank is topped up or the bottle runs dry; before that, pour gently using the built-in spout. - Close the cap, and check again — making sure the diesel filler stayed closed throughout. Only then, start the vehicle. Spot at stage two or three that it's already gone into your diesel side? Then stop just there. Stage five is out. ## Put AdBlue in your diesel tank around The Potteries already? The short order of things, starting with not starting your motor. Leave the ignition off too, since on many diesels switching it on alone runs the fuel pump. AdBlue doesn't mix with diesel — it sinks to the bottom of that tank, where the fuel is drawn from — so do not top up with diesel to dilute it. Ask the staff to help push the car away from the pump if you're at a forecourt — the Gulf, the BP or somewhere else. On your own drive around The Potteries? Then your car remains where it is. Already run? Stop when it's sensible, then turn off. On the M6, under 5 miles from The Potteries, that means the next exit. Roughly how far did it go? Crossing The Potteries is less a job than a trip of under a mile to Stoke-on-Trent, and so say. ## What occurs when our technicians get there in The Potteries The van reaches the car anywhere it stopped — your own driveway, beside Joiners Square Community Centre, or outside St Mark's CofE Primary School. Our technicians ask what went in, roughly how much, and whether it's run, since the replies decide this work and the price. You hear that price on the phone, before anybody sets off. Then that tank is cleared and the system purged thoroughly. With AdBlue that counts more than with petrol: it crystallises and is corrosive to some of the metals in a fuel system, and so it doesn't wash out on its own. Your filter is flushed, or replaced where it needs to be; fresh diesel goes in; and the vehicle is tested. We do not go until it has been started and is running correctly. Unrun cars mostly need a half-hour visit after arrival. The equipment is safe on a live filling station, and quiet enough for a residential street late at night. You pay on the day, with nothing upfront, and get a VAT invoice and an engineer report for your insurer. While we travel, take a look at your policy; plenty carry cover for misfuelling. ## About The Potteries The Potteries is a locality situated on the riverside in Staffordshire, with an elevation of around 139 metres, and is located near Stoke-on-Trent. The Potteries is characterized by its predominantly terraced housing and is close to nearby places such as Joiners Square and Shelton. The Potteries has a population of approximately 2472 residents and is part of the wider Stoke-on-Trent area. The Potteries is about 135 miles northwest of London, making it a significant urban centre in the West Midlands region. ## The Potteries and Staffordshire: AdBlue drains across the area Over ST postcodes, the vans covering The Potteries — a neighbourhood — work the nearby spots too, Stoke-on-Trent and Shelton included. Quickest of all: quote a ST1 3 postcode for the van. The car does not need to move. Our technicians drain it where it is — a side street close to City Central Mosque, a lay-by on the way to Caldon Quay Park, a drive. Awkward to pin down, like the back of All Saints Church? Close to a county line? Asking is better than guessing, so ring. ## In short, for The Potteries drivers Read the cap before you pour. Even so AdBlue in your diesel tank? Petrol in Diesel can empty it where it is, wherever around Staffordshire: keep the car off and phone 0333 366 0103.